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Informix Server

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LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Allow renaming a database when BTS Index is defined

When renaming a database that has a BTS (Basic Text Search) index defined, it fails with error -9874. In the documentation it reads: [...] The RENAME DATABASE statement fails with error -9874, however, if the specified database contains any of the...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

ifxclone to not change BUFFERPOOLS

ifxclone to not change BUFFERPOOLS when running.
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

ifxclone to support DIRECT_IO

ifxclone to support DIRECT_IO Currently ifxclone changes the onconfig and removes DIRECT_IO
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Page limitation for single fragment, to avoid stop the business and recreate the table .

Remove or enlarge the 16,775,134 page limitation per fragment.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add columnar indexes to Informix.

Other databases e.g. DB2 have columnar index support builtin, we would like that in Informix as well. use case the same as for DB2.
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Implement nested loop join of external and indexed tables

We raised a support case for this, but creating here will help it progress. The description was as shown below. Please vote for it! Regards,Doug LawryOninit Consulting Try this in the "stores_demo" database: SET EXPLAIN ON;SELECT {+USE_NL(cust...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted